Spectacle Of Love

Libby’s first-ever full-length solo album.

Plucked from the Mipso collective, Rodenbough adds acoustic and electric guitar, piano and synth, and more to her personal repertoire of instruments, and invites in a widened family of stellar North Carolina musicians to help bring Spectacle Of Love to fruition. 

The depth of Rodenbough’s songwriting––and her knack for seamlessly juxtaposing immense emotion with observational asides––is fully revealed on Spectacle Of Love. With lyrics delivered head-on and creative choices in service of that same unwavering honesty, Spectacle of Love is simultaneously an intimate confession and an expansive declaration.

In Their Own Words

“I made this album for a long time. I grew up in Greensboro going to Friendly Shopping Centre to hang out with my friends at the Gap and drink “smoothies” that were like thick Kool-Aid. I got sick on sugar and decided to start sneering more. When I was 19, I went to Chicago to take classes at the Old Town School of Folk Music, where Pete Seeger and John Prine had played, and lost my edge again. I went back to college in North Carolina and abruptly fell in love, swallowed point blank. I joined a folky band called Mipso. My heart broke. I got tired of going to bars and moved to the country. Then I got tired of the country and moved closer to the bars. I traveled all over the U.S. and a few other parts of the world playing songs for people, and they were the type of song people can sing along to, and it felt uncanny when they sang along. I decided voting was senseless, then I tried to get everyone I knew to vote for Bernie Sanders, then my heart broke again real bad. All the time I was putting songs into my back pocket, and eventually it started to feel heavy, so I recorded them, and by then I had a lot of magical friends around to record them with.” - Libby Rodenbough

Credits

All songs mixed by Phil Moore, mastered by Saman Khoujinian. Production by Libby Rodenbough, Phil Moore, Alex Bingham.

All lead vocals by Libby Rodenbough. 

How Come You Call Me - recorded at Arbor Ridge Studios by Jeff Crawford, additional recording by Libby Rodenbough at home. Vocals, piano, strings: Libby Rodenbough. Bass: Alex Bingham. Drums: Joe Westerlund. Organ: Jeff Crawford. Bass clarinet: Danny Abrams. Harmonies: Phil Moore and Kate Rhudy. Electric Guitar: Saman Khoujinian. 

Hey Buddy - recorded at The Cabin by Ryan Johnson, additional recording by Libby Rodenbough at home.  Acoustic guitar, vocals, strings, toms: Libby Rodenbough. Bass: Alex Bingham. Electric/slide guitar: Ryan Johnson. Brushes: Phil Moore. Bass clarinet: Danny Abrams. 

Gatekeeper - recorded at The Cabin by Phil Moore, additional recording by Libby Rodenbough at home. Acoustic guitar, strings, synth, vocals: Libby Rodenbough. Harmonies, baritone guitar, drums: Phil Moore. Upright bass: Alex Bingham. Electric guitar: Saman Khoujinian. 

Tell Me How - recorded at The Cabin by Ryan Johnson, additional recording by Libby Rodenbough and Phil Moore at home. Acoustic guitar, vocals, strings: Libby Rodenbough. Harmonies, piano, drums: Phil Moore. Harmonies: Kate Rhudy. Upright bass: Alex Bingham. 

Under the U-Bahn - recorded at Bedtown by Phil Moore, Alex Bingham, Saman Khoujinian. Violin 1: Libby Rodenbough. Violin 2: Tatiana Hargreaves. Bass: Alex Bingham. Harmonium: Dan Knobler.

Country Jam - recorded at Bedtown by Phil Moore, Alex Bingham, and Saman Khoujinian. Strings, vocals, claps: Libby Rodenbough. Violin 2: Tatiana Hargreaves. Electric bass, OP-1 drums, mellotron: Alex Bingham. 

Colors - recorded at the Lakehouse by Ryan Johnson, additional recording by Libby Rodenbough and Alex Bingham at home and at Bedtown. Electric guitar, vocals, pizz: Libby Rodenbough. Bass, mellotron, Yamaha synth organ, drum machine, background vocals: Alex Bingham. Drums, percussion: Chris Gelb. Vibraslap: Phil Moore.

What Do You Mean - recorded by Libby Rodenbough at home, additional recording at The Cabin by Ryan Johnson. Strings, vocals, snaps: Libby Rodenbough. Electric bass, white piano: Alex Bingham. Electric guitar: Ryan Johnson. 

Glory - recorded by Ryan Johnson and Phil Moore at The Cabin. Acoustic guitar, vocals, violin, synth: Libby Rodenbough. Bass, electric guitar, drums, percussion background vocals, white, piano: Phil Moore. Electric guitar: Saman Khoujinian. 

You Like It Here - recorded by Ryan Johnson and Phil Moore at The Cabin. Acoustic guitar, piano, vocals: Libby Rodenbough. Bass: Alex Bingham. Drums, shaker, electric guitar, white piano, harmonies: Phil Moore. Harmonies: Kate Rhudy. Bass clarinet: Danny Abrams.

String Me On the Line - recorded by Libby Rodenbough at The Cabin. Acoustic guitar, vocals, strings: Libby Rodenbough.

The Kitchen - recorded by Phil Moore at home. Acoustic guitar, vocals, piano: Libby Rodenbough. Electric guitar, bass, drums, percussion: Phil Moore. 
The Other Side - recorded at the Lakehouse by Ryan Johnson, additional recording by Libby Rodenbough, Alex Bingham, and Saman Khoujinian at home and at Bedtown. Acoustic guitar, vocals, violins: Libby Rodenbough. Bass, OP-1: Alex Bingham. Drums, percussion: Chris Gelb. Electric guitar: Ryan Johnson. Harmonies: Phil Moore.

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